Intense Deja Vu, followed by lightheadedness and strange feeling

I had convolutions from birth till almost five. They went away, but when I was twelve I got to wired feeling , well I was walking by my kitchen window, It felt like a dajvu or like I am out of my body looking at me. I thought it was stress from my father dying. It starts from my head down my body scared weird feeling only lasts a few seconds or a bit longer. Then I feel weak and a bad head ache, all over my head and feel nauseated, very tired, scared. Last about a couple of hours the head ache and weak, nauseated. It goes away. Had a few I Didn't have any more till my fourtys, it started again, I thought it was could be hormones changes, or stress ,but comes and goes through the years after that, but I just got one in the shower, last about a min or more this time I felt I had to close my eyes . And squat down It's was very strong and scary. Very over powering I couldn't control it, this time, sometimes I could control it. extream head ache and weak and nauseated again like can't focus clear. I am 65 years old. What is it ?

I have something very similar. Having read through an awful lot of these posts I believe that it a mild form of epilepsy, temporal lobe epilepsy to be precise. Usulssy it's brought on by stress, fatigue or both.

I need help with this same problem. Last night it happened five times
This is how it happens for me,
I get flooded with a memory that feels like a dream, and I try on concentrate on the people in the dream but when I try and recall faces,
I get dizzy, fell sick, and start sweating and unreal amont of sweat. Even though it was 40 degrees. Then I feel weak for awhile afterwards..
Happens more and more now..

This started happening to me about 10 years ago and I read a thread where someone suggested to stop eating gluten and see if that works. I was having these deja vu fainting feelings often enough that I did go GF and it actually worked. Since, there have been a few times where I'm like "Oh this GF thing is bogus and I want to eat an avocado bagel, etc. yet EVERYTIME i get off the wagon, the deja vu's start again. Also, I did a food allergy test and wheat was high on my list. The only other symptom is I get a cramp in my left side that is uncomfortable. Just throwing it out there as my personal experience.

Hi Pete. I have the EXACT same thing happen to me. I have been having this for over 15 years although they rarely occur more than every six months - although I will have at least 2 or 3 of the episodes or more within a day or two. As I’ve tracked this over the years I started to see a diet correlation. I first thought it was about what I was eating (like junk food) but then had some episodes when I was eating healthy and exercising (but may not have been eating enough). When I mentioned them to a nurse practitioner she immediately said - sounds like hypoglycemia. The adrenaline causes the liver to release sugar into the blood to raise the blood sugar. But the whole weird dream thing is a mystery - somehow art of the brain is being triggered to dump these “memories”. I’d be interested to know if you’ve had more of these.

I used to suffer the same. My theory was lack of water which thickens the blood and undersupplied the brain. Not had one in 15 years. G Jank

So much of what has been written on here resonates so much with my experiences. Have been having what I can only describe as a series of feelings of déja vu which last about 30 seconds to 1 minute. Started over a year ago but have only just started recording the frequency of them. Seem to happen about twice a month. Weirdly, the majority of them happen when I get in the shower at home. Had one at work one lunchtime at my desk and another one in a shower on holiday. After the event, I feel like my heart is racing and I feel upset for an hour or so afterwards. The strange thing is, I can't bring to mind afterwards what the déja vus were about. I finally went to the doctor about them today (and yes, struggled to describe what was happening without feeling stupid and like I was wasting their time) and she said that it's possible that it's linked to the menopause (I'm 55) and has recommended Menopace Plus so I'm going to give them a try and see what happens.

So I am so glad I found this website and the people describing these weird episodes of Deja vu'/dizziness while feeling nauseated and disoriented. I feel like I am re-living a past memory. When I see a familiar building in a location I've been to in the past, it usually kicks up. I can feel it coming gradually for about 20 seconds and then after that it comes on very strong, lose my balance and get nauseated. The feeling does subside after 15 mins or so.
Anyways I've been struggling to explain what has been going on with me. I am happy to read I am not alone when I experience these strong Deja Vu episodes. I wish you all the best and I hope you find a solution to end these feeling's.
Cheers, Kyle.

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I had this too. I really intense feeling of deja vu + dread. Then dizzy, lightheaded and weak. It was an intense mental emotional experience followed by an intense physical experience. Very disconcerting. It happened a few times and I went to my doctor. He noted that I was on Zoloft which is an anti depressant. I had been on it for 15 years. Originally I was prescribed 50 mg and I cut the pill in half, and then in half again! - so I was taking 12.5mg. My original doctor told me that I was taking a "homeopathic dose" meaning that it was so little that it would not have any effect. I found that that was the appropriate dose for ME. Over time I began to take it intermittently. For instance I would take a 50mg pill and then 4 days later another one. Sometimes I would not take any medication for a couple of weeks and then if something was coming up that made me nervous i would take a whole pill. It was lazy but I did not even connect the symptoms I was having.
When I told my new doctor he immediately correlated it to Zoloft and told me that those strange symptoms were from taking the medication intermittently. He also said that 12.5 is NOT an insignificant dose, in fact the first 10 mg does most of the heavy lifting with zoloft.
I hope this helps you if you are having these symptoms.
In the end I ended up going off zoloft entirely and found that I was able to handle life without falling into depression.

ps. after i went off zoloft i never had the weird deja vu and dizziness again!

I had multiple episodes today...at least 6. Exactly how you describe it. It's like I'm suddenly jolted back into an intense dream I had in the past and I'm trying to recognize it, or navigate it. Coupled with some nausea and just a weird sensation all over. Very difficult to explain to people. I am experiencing some extreme stress right now. This is not the first time this happened to me. I had a series or cluster of them about 8-9 years ago when I was under a lot of stress.

You describe it so well. I experienced those same sensations. And the description of the dream indentity/confusion is spot on. I have not seen a doctor about this.

I have experience the same thing, about 10 episodes in the last 2.5 years. Only way to describe it is a déjà vu sensation (but not actual déjà vu) sometimes followed by dizziness and almost out of body feeling. I have had two specific Instances that caused me to faint an hit my head and end up in the ER. Doctors don’t know what it is (also calling it temporal lobes epilepsy). Doing a lot of tests with a cardiologist and neurologist, but so far no answers

I have experienced this intense deja vu that is extremely real and a flush of nausea and lightheadedness like I am about to faint. I have it about two times a week and it can occur in the shower, in bed while I am sleeping, at work, driving, ect. I don't know what the exact trigger is but the experience is very real

This has been happening to me as well for well over 2 years now. I get funny tastes and increased senses of smell as well. I had an MRI and no sign of anything at all. Very unsettling....